Online storytelling

Hello!

Are you ok? Still impressed by my Chroma project? 😏 Me too, but don't worry! I bring new surprises for you today! From the beginning of this blog, I have shared with you several activities, all of them educational; but on this post I want to make an exception.

All of us have stories that make us happy 😛, embarrassed 😳, sad 😞, curious 🧐...Storytelling is one of the most powerful tools, not only for teachers, but humans in general, to get whatever we want; remember that communication is very important in our days. Today's post is about stories, but not about a story that is written and that's all. NO NO NO. Our post is about telling stories online. Yes, my right neuron is happy again, my left isn't.

Flipgrid is a social video for student engagement and formative assessment. We joined to this social platform with the project Twima: The World Is My Audience. This project is about telling stories; so far there are stories from my classmates and from students and teachers from Alverno.

As I said before, we joined to Flipgrid and when I say WE I mean we; our creator Soraya has joined us too and she has told a nice and fun story about her first time teaching as a private tutor in the United Kingdom. Let's listen to her! 

If you want to hear more stories, here you can find the whole #twima8 grid. I recognize some faces 😆 Hello! 😂

Participating in one activity like this encourages you to share your own stories. Our is about teaching, but there are others about Why am I a teacher? or Happy Exchange Experience. For me this project has got several advantages: sometimes you've got stories that you want to share but you don't know if they are relevant for you colleagues, classmates,...Twima has given us the opportunity to tell how shocked was to have got parents into the classroom. The alternative story than Soraya wanted to tell was: she is working in a public school in Madrid and it's her first time. Sometimes she wants to share stories about her first impressions (everything is new for her), but she knows that those stories maybe are bored for her colleagues. Sometimes, opening the mouth liberates yourself. The project is quite cool and innovative! Why not to create a similar activity with primary students to share their own stories 🤔 (left neuron idea). 

What about you? Have you got a story that you want to share? Don't be shy and remember that sharing is caring! Spread the voice and you story, of course! 

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Be mad with an infographic

Hello my dear friends!

I don't know if I've told you, but I love being creative and sometimes my imaginations hasn't got limits. My right neuron feels quite sad when a student colours an elephant with the grey crayon or a whale with the blue crayon. I think that students must be creative and use their imagination as much as they can. This will give them originality, a must tool in this society. For this reason, today I bring a nice infographic. Wait! Didn't I explain what an infographic is? Sorry! My fault.

An infographic is a very visual way of representing and transmitting knowledge. I use the app Canva. I told you about this app in this post. I think that is the best free app that I've ever used to create nice and visual content. Canva gives you a lot of free templates for infographics, CV, recipes, diaries...You can choose several illustrations, pictures, fonts. Try it! 

The topic that I want to show you through an infographic is a topic that I really love. I like telling stories, but sometimes the students find very difficult to express themselves with creativity and they tell the same stories that we know: Little Red Riding Hood, the Beauty and the Beast... In this infographic I summarize the best tools that I consider essential to make up a story. In this way the students reinforce their writing and speaking skills. 

How to make up stories de Soraya Borja Almarcha

I hope you like it and you can make up wonderful stories with your students. 

Take care and have a wonderful Easter break! See you soon!

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